What is USCIS doing with K3s? week of March 23rd

[KarenJohn 3]

UGH!

Our K-3 has been at NVC since Sept 2nd. Touched twice -- Jan 29th and 30th.

Any day now, PLEASE!!!!

My husband is coming back over in three weeks. We HOPE this will be the last visit before he's finally here.

[mrsB 0]

Our case was last "touched" when it was received, a year ago. According to the online check, the phone check and asking the officer... So yeah, those cases surely aren't processed in order of arrival as many that arrived after ours have already been approved and interviewed long ago. Not sure what the USCIS is doing, but it doesn't seem to be much...

[SKALGHALI 0]

Form our data VSC is now processing July K3 and July I130

after a crazy moment of processing Jan

since last week they kind of shutdown. don't know what they are doing.

Don't believe what they said on the phone about processing september I130s

My gut feeling

for I130 and K3s

sep remaining filers still 1-2 months if lucky I'd say

unless something happens

they are not meeting targets

for K1s they are processing october - november

they are approaching target

This is making sense, i called last week because mine is also passed their 6 month processing time. They told me they are doing an inquiry but i'm not sure what that means.

Also, i hate to sound slow but can anyone answer what does "touched" mean? Is that some kind of contact between you and USCIS because they have not contacted me since i received my NOA2 in October......

[mrsB 0]

To my understanding "touched" means that someone has bothered to at least look at your case over a cup of coffee at some point. They wouldn't give me details on what is being done to my case as apparently that's not something they're required to do.

I'm starting to feel pretty damn frustrated if people filed for their visa in September and are already supposed to be getting somewhere in 1-2 months from now when I've waited a year and heard absolutely nothing. I have a feeling that our papers were actually LOST but nobody just bothered to inform us about that either.

[Frenchwife 1]

To my understanding "touched" means that someone has bothered to at least look at your case over a cup of coffee at some point. They wouldn't give me details on what is being done to my case as apparently that's not something they're required to do.

I'm starting to feel pretty damn frustrated if people filed for their visa in September and are already supposed to be getting somewhere in 1-2 months from now when I've waited a year and heard absolutely nothing. I have a feeling that our papers were actually LOST but nobody just bothered to inform us about that either.

hi

where is your timeline?

has it been deleted?

could you fill it please?

you don t qppeqr to me in the lists

september is an average optimistic guess for a K1

nobody has a clue

and K3 are rather going by July August average

except sometimes they pick chaotically more recent one

and except nothing seems to happen recently

march is actually out of processing times

did you call and ask for a service request to understand where you stand

I think you are entitled to it

repeat: please update your timeline

thanks for your post

you are not alone in this lottery....

[mrsB 0]

TIMELINE (approximates)

Married (in Finland) 12/15/2007.

& Got the paperworks started once my

husband returned to USA after Christmas.

Filed I-130 in February 2008.

NOA1 on I-130 on 04/16/2008.

Filed I-129F in April 2008.

NOA1 on I-129F on 06/06/2008 (with our names spelled completely wrong).

Immediately reported the typo regarding I-129F and was told that it's being fixed.

No news from USCIS.

I contact the US Embassy in Helsinki in August 2008 asking about visa waiver & tourist visa, they instruct me to use visa waiver - at my own risk, they also tell me that I should be expecting my visa in October, this calms me down.

Around mid-December 2008 after contacting USCIS we hear that our case has been forwarded to an officer (I guess this means picked up,

already several months late). We also learn that the name on I-129F was never fixed. USCIS recommends dropping the I-129F as it hasn't managed to speed up our process.

No news from USCIS.

I contact the US Embassy in Helsinki 02/02/2009, they are surprised that I still haven't got my visa and instruct me to tell my husband to contact his local congressman. They also agree to send me their package already with the hopes that with the congressman being involved the USCIS will be done in a couple of weeks.

I start gathering up my paperwork for the USCIS.

Husband contacts the congressman/senator 02/03/2009.

Congressman's involvement resulted in USCIS contacting my husband around mid-February 2009, telling him our case is going through FBI name check.

I contact the US Embassy in Helsinki 03/26/2009 in hopes of finding out if they have new ideas or know what's taking so long, all they could tell me was to keep bothering the congressman and the USCIS. They are shocked to see my case STILL stuck with the USCIS and said that the FBI name check shouldn't take more than a few days.

I contact the USCIS 03/27/2009 in hopes of knowing more about our case, but all the info I get is the NOA1 from April 2008. They tell me to tell my husband to call them.

My husband contacts the USCIS 03/27/2009 and is romised more information within 7 days.

I contact the congressman's immigration specialist 03/27/2009 and I'm told that all they can do is contact USCIS every 30 days.

Waiting...

That would be from my post on another topic. And to be added, my husband has sent 4 service requests already, I've asked for one (mine was on 03-27-2009), don't know the dates of the ones husband requested.

And I'm sorry to all those people who keep asking about my timeline, it's very hard to do one in my case. This will have to do.

Edited April 1, 2009 by mrsB

[KarenJohn 3]

I called USCIS today since my two files are over the six month processing timeline. They created two service requests (for VSC).

I feel for everyone who's playing the waiting game. This process is simply inconsistent. I despise calling USCIS since they're very robotic in their canned questions and they read from the same sheet of music we do (their website). I understand it's their job, but what would be nice is tell us where they are in the process. What are they waiting on, what's their timeframe????? I digress. *sigh*

Patience is key -- but frustration is KING! UGH!!!!

[Frenchwife 1]

hey

have a look at this post

The topic can be found here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...view=getnewpost

from there qlso jump into a november 2008 post about fbi names checks

Edited April 2, 2009 by Frenchwife

[a-chan c-kun 0]

As far as I understand, your case has been "touched" if your case status online has been updated from a previous date, but the status really hasn't changed at all. And from what I have read on Visa Journey, being touched doesn't seem to mean much of anything at all.

When I called for a "past the normal processing time" service request, by case was touched a couple days after, but the status was still processing. A few days after that I received a form letter saying the same and to not bother them for another 90 days.

[Ansu Binu 0]

Hey all...got my 129F and 130 approved today. 129F was touched on 4/8 and 4/9 and both approved on 4/10. So things are moving in VSC!!

Interesting note...VJ estimated gave my approval dates to be between 4/9 and 5/2.

[love1080 0]

congrats..thats good news.

all the best for NVC journey

[Frenchwife 1]

Also, i hate to sound slow but can anyone answer what does "touched" mean? Is that some kind of contact between you and USCIS because they have not contacted me since i received my NOA2 in October......

SKALGHALI,

touched means that your file has a date change as of last updated on Uscis site, that can mean something or not much

which noa2 are you referring to?

by the way you say you are K3 but did not indicate your NOA1 for I129F.

not sure I understand where you are?

Edited April 13, 2009 by Frenchwife

[a-chan c-kun 0]

My 129 was touched today at CSC. Maybe I will get lucky tomorrow too!

[love1080 0]

hi friends..any other update from you?

i think VSC is soon moving towards october applications. Many september end and middle filers have got approvals.

all the best to everyone. May we all get approvals soon.

keep writing

[D&M09 0]

hi friends..any other update from you?

i think VSC is soon moving towards october applications. Many september end and middle filers have got approvals.

all the best to everyone. May we all get approvals soon.

keep writing

Amen, to that!!!